Praxis International Inc.

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“Individuals with possible conflicts are required to disclose the conflict with the board and withdraw from discussion and voting on the matter.”

“Comparable data gathered and considered in the compensation setting process. The board of directors annually reviews and approves the compensation levels.”

“Available upon request at the organization's st. Paul, mn office during normal business hours.”

“Praxis has earned a national reputation for innovative and victim-focused approaches to working with legal and human service institutions to create deterrents to violence against women. Since 1998 we have implemented comprehensive and targeted technical assistance projects for the u. S. Department of justice, office on violence against women (ovw) for their grantees in various grant programs (rural, supervised visitation and safe exchange, and grants to encourage arrest) as well as communities and organizations around the country. The primary focus of our work is to reform institutional support for survivors of violence against women against and teach social change advocacy. As a national training and technical assistance provider, praxis has worked with thousands of people and hundreds of communities seeking to respond to and end violence against women in rural and suburban communities, urban centers and native tribes. Praxis employs a wide range of strategies to share innovations and change conditions that produce injustice including: training institutes, webinars, and distance learning featuring national experts and peer-to-peer dialogues; roundtables convened to delve deep into issues and foster creative thinking; comprehensive tool kits to help apply new approaches step-by-step; emerging issue think pieces; conference presentations; and a website rich with free materials. For almost two decades, we have conducted dozens of on-site consultations throughout the country; provided more than 500 advocacy and criminal justice reform trainings; conducted over one hundred safety and accountability audits in partnership with local communities; and produced numerous training and ta resources including online training courses, public awareness campaigns, needs assessments, organizing manuals, training guides, and comprehensive training toolkits. Our current projects include: the advocacy learning center is a comprehensive project to build knowledge and skills for effective, high-quality individual, institutional, and community advocacy on behalf of all survivors of gender based violence. The advocacy learning center is a national project in partnership with the u.s. Office on violence against women, and a host of other minnesota-based and national advocates and trainers. Teams of advocates and their agency leaders from dozens of states, tribal nations, and u.s territories come together to listen, share, learn, teach, debate and celebrate together throughout an 18-month course. Alc participants delve deep into core values and principles of advocacy in a four-day initial immersion training; examine how we can reshape institutions to protect women and children in a three-day systems change institute; then think and plan together on changing cultural conditions that generate violence against women at a two-day community advocacy training. The teams explore the topics most important to them through remote learning and webinars and expand their grasp of what is possible through site visits to model social justice organizations around the country-- all towards strengthening advocacy organizations to create fundamental social change. Since 2009, 792 advocates and 294 advocacy groups have participated in the alc. The blueprint for safety demonstration initiative (first an ovw demonstration initiative and now a targeted ta project) documents and supports the adaptation of st. Paul's successful blueprint for safety model in communities across the country. In 2010, the blueprint became the first comprehensive interagency framework in the nation for criminal justice system response to domestic violence. Its design drew on hundreds of hours of analysis, interviews, and discussions across the system, multiple battered women's advocacy programs, and dozens of diverse community-based focus groups. The office on violence against women has subsequently funded praxis to serve as the technical assistance provider blueprint communities selected by ovw ar”